From e21f794196fbf9b993262610d858d85a87d54abe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Giedrius=20Statkevi=C4=8Dius?=
 <giedrius.statkevicius@vinted.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 09:39:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] request: permit using no auth

---
 rest-request.go | 17 ++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rest-request.go b/rest-request.go
index e473c942..79be05c3 100644
--- a/rest-request.go
+++ b/rest-request.go
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ type StatusMessage struct {
 
 // NewClient initializes client for interacting with an instance of Grafana server;
 // apiKeyOrBasicAuth accepts either 'username:password' basic authentication credentials,
-// or a Grafana API key
+// or a Grafana API key. If it is an empty string then no authentication is used.
 func NewClient(apiURL, apiKeyOrBasicAuth string, client *http.Client) (*Client, error) {
 	key := ""
 	basicAuth := strings.Contains(apiKeyOrBasicAuth, ":")
@@ -96,12 +96,15 @@ func NewClient(apiURL, apiKeyOrBasicAuth string, client *http.Client) (*Client,
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	if !basicAuth {
-		key = fmt.Sprintf("Bearer %s", apiKeyOrBasicAuth)
-	} else {
-		parts := strings.Split(apiKeyOrBasicAuth, ":")
-		baseURL.User = url.UserPassword(parts[0], parts[1])
+	if len(apiKeyOrBasicAuth) > 0 {
+		if !basicAuth {
+			key = fmt.Sprintf("Bearer %s", apiKeyOrBasicAuth)
+		} else {
+			parts := strings.Split(apiKeyOrBasicAuth, ":")
+			baseURL.User = url.UserPassword(parts[0], parts[1])
+		}
 	}
+
 	return &Client{baseURL: baseURL.String(), basicAuth: basicAuth, key: key, client: client}, nil
 }
 
@@ -143,7 +146,7 @@ func (r *Client) doRequest(ctx context.Context, method, query, rawPath string, p
 		return nil, 0, err
 	}
 	req = req.WithContext(ctx)
-	if !r.basicAuth {
+	if !r.basicAuth && len(r.key) > 0 {
 		req.Header.Set("Authorization", r.key)
 	}
 	if r.customHeaders != nil {